| Places | |
|---|---|
| Accession Number | AWM2020.22.31 |
| Collection number | PR02080 |
| Collection type | Digitised Collection |
| Record type | Item |
| Item count | 1 |
| Object type | Notebook |
| Physical description | 26 Image/s captured |
| Maker |
Ellerman, Austin Yeats |
| Place made | Singapore: Changi, Thailand |
| Date made | 1942-1944 |
| Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
| Copying Provisions | Digital format and content protected by copyright. |
| Source credit to | This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government. |
2/29th Battalion Casualty Book of Austin Ellerman Yeats, 1942-1944
Description
Casualty book relating to the Second World War service of VX50052 Lieutenant Austin Yeats Ellerman, 2/29 Battalion, Malaya and Thailand, 1942-1944.
A casualty book of the hospitalisation and deaths of men of the 2/29 Battalion as prisoners of war through illness and mistreatment at locations in Thailand between 1943 and 1944. The locations include Kanchanabri, Kanchanabri New Hospital Camp, Tarbaya, Kamai Sonkurai and other locations in Thailand between 1943 and 1944. The details include date, place and cause of death. The material has been compiled in an 'Admission and Discharge Book', Army Book 27.
The book also includes the poem 'Romance', handwritten by NX68384 Corporal Walter Duckenfield Eales in Changi, 2/3 Motor Ambulance Convoy, in December 1942. A typescript copy of the poem has been pasted into the casualty book at an unknown date.